Best way to give yourself eye drops?

Question

I am scared to give myself eye drops because I don't like the feeling of the drop landing in my eye so I often miss and get my cheek. What are some easy ways other than aiming and trying not to squint...

Answer 1

close your eyes and drop the eye drops in the corner of your eye closest to your nose, and then open your eyes. the eye drops will slide in by themselves.

Answer 2

I have the exact same problem as you. Here's the trick...just put the eye drop bottle tip in the corner of your eye where your tear duct is. Hold your held back, and give yourself the 1-2 drops needed. Works for me everytime. It's also better, because when you do it like this, there's a less chance that it will run out of your eye, and if you are wearing mascara, that's definately a plus.

Answer 3

Lie down on your back with your head tipped back a bit.

Pull down your lower eyelid gently using your middle finger.
Let the palm of same hand rest on chin for stability.

With your other hand, hold the eye dropper with the heel of your hand resting on the OPPOSITE cheek (for stability & so you won't miss).

Next, gaze UPWARD with your eyes (as if you were trying to look at the top of your head)......(this prevents you from having the blinking reflex cause you can't see the drop coming).

Without touching the dropper to the eyeball, gently squeeze the dropper to instill the prescribed number of drops.

Gently close your eye after you have instilled the drops and blink a few times.

Takes a little practice, but works!

NurseMom

***Nikki's advice is right on the money, that is the other safest way to do this.

Answer 4

Hi,

There is no need to look at the bottle to put drops in.

Do it lying down in the dark.

With the fingers of one hand hold your eye open, rest your other hand on top of that hand with the dropper above your eye and squeeze.

I do it every night.

I like to feel the drops cold in my eye, that way I know I have been successfully but if you hold the drops in your hand till they warm up to your body temperature you will not even feel them go in.

Skip

Answer 5

try this... hold the dropper closer to your eye and squeeze the drop into the inner corner of your eye. Then when you blink, the drop will distribute around the eye.
This worked very well when I had to give my 7 month old drops for an infection.

Answer 6

The best way is to put the drops in the corner of your eye and then open your eye. Works great.

Answer 7

I hold the bottle of eye drop 1/2 an ich away from my eye, to make sure it doesn't miss. It isn't that creepy to have a drop of medicine go into your eyes.

Answer 8

You can try to hold your eye open with your index finger on your top lid and your thumb on your bottom lid. That way you cannot close your eye when the drop comes out of the bottle.

Answer 9

You know the part of your eye that gets pointy....the part closest to your eye. when your eyes are closed put a drop there then open them and the drops leak into your eye. It works really good!!

Hope this helps

Answer 10

The best and only way is to fix your eyes on the ceiling and just drop the solution on eyes, if you miss try again.